Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-09-24

Their health does not suffer in conse-
quence, and their adolescence is not
characterized by any unusual mental or
bodily infirmity. / have observed this
repeatedly. learned my letters my
self at 8, spelling directly afterward,
and began the usual common school
branches at s. have yet to have the
first illness or Impairment of stamina to
set down to the account of examining.
excessive study, or any brain-forcing.
The trouble, am convinced, does not
lie there, but in other conditions, such
as badly ventilated schoolrooms and in
attention to the laws of hygiene. DIR.
A. Wilder, in Home knowledge.
GOOD RULES TO FOLLOW.
Be regular in your habits.
If possible, go to bed at the same
hour every night.
Rise in the morning soon after you
are awake.
Asponge bath of cold or tepid water
should be followed by friction of towel
or hand.
Eat plain food.
Begin your morning meal with fruit.
Don't 60 to work Immediately after
eating.
Be moderate in the use of all liquids
at all seasons.
It is safer to filter and boil drinking
water.
Exercise in the open air whenever
the weather permits.
In malarious districts walk in the
middle of the day.
Keep the feet comfortable and well
protected.
Wear wooden clothing the year
around.
See that your sleeping rooms and
living rooms are we'll ventilated, and
that sewer gas does not enter them.
Brush your teeth twice day, night
and morning.
Don't worry. It interferes with the
healthful action of the stomach.
You must have interesting occupa-
ton in vigorous old age. Continue to
keep the brain active. Rest means
rust.-Herald of Health.
MACHINERY THAT H1NDERs.
Many young farmers have been Grip
pied at the start by investing too much
capital in farm machinery. Much farm
machinery is an economical necessity,
oMingto the scarcity of farm labor rather
than economic saving compared with
hand labor, if the latter is possible.
Hence farmer needs to know not only
the principles and operation of the
he uses, but also which,
among the vast number offered; he can
most easily dispense with. For many
stout young farmer, especially on a
small farm, the costly patent harrow,
the sulky plough, the potato planter and
digger, the combined thresher and
cleaner, the hay tedder, and possibly
even the reaper, are luxuries rather
than necessities. I am old-fashioned
enough to be sorry that the graceful
and invigorating exercise of swinging
the cradle is so nearly lost art, both
in and out of doors on the farm.-Ohio
Farmer.
SCRAP BOOK.
Hog products have stifened in price
with declining supply of hogs and
better demand.
Florida claims to have extensive phos-
phate beds, equaling if not surprising
those Of. South Carolina.
A New York farmer says he failed to
get a crop of turnips until he used UNI
leached ashes to fertilize the ground.
Ashes will raise crop on any kind of
land.
Plants growing too thickly together
cannot thrive. Some of them are as
weeds to the others. Thin them out if
too thick, and a larger yield will be the
result.
Sweden exports 100000 worth of
butter a year. The government takes
an interest in the industry, and has
dairy schools where pupils are taught
how to make good butter.
By feeding the oats unthreshed, we
save the labor of threshing, and also get
the straw and grain together in the
stomach, getting better digestion of
both than when they are fed separate.
The introduction of labor-saving ma
chinery has disarranged the old meth
DDS of farming, and in nothing more
than in the changes it has necessitated
in the employment of hired help.
Any agricultural society can save
money by restricting the number of
prizes in each ofsthe classes. Two
premiums are enough to offer for any
thing, as no exhibitor cares for a
third or fourth prize.
Waldo F. Brown says in the Nation
al Stockman: One mistake which is
made by many breeders of Jerseys is
to allow them to breed too young, and
think this has done much to reduce
their size.
Save all the manure. A quarter of a
century ago many Western farmers
dumped their manure into rivers, not
supposing that manure or fertilizers
would ever be required, but the ques-
ton Of fertilizers is now being discussed
as well as the best methods of restoring
fertility.